After
the well known fantasy shooter series featuring 'Sorcerer Striker' from
1993 and 'Kingdom Grandprix' from 1994, Raizing decided to come up next
with a dark, industrial subjected shooter game. In Battle Garegga (lit.
Battle Garage) you won't find the typical nice and clean grass, desert,
and water backgrounds you often see in other shooter games. Everything
looks dark and dirty here.

At the beginning of the game you choose between 4 planes with individual
weaponary. As always, the [A] button controls the main gun; smart bombs
are located on button [B]. These can be missile storms, giant flame throwers,
vulcans as well as an impressive napalm rain.

By collecting specific medals you can pick up everywhere in the game,
you are able to enhance your fire power, the strength of your smart bomb
and the number of options around your plane. A maximum of 4 of them are
allowed to assist you by shooting towards the enemy. Use the [C] button,
you control the formation of these helpers.

Check the 'selection secrets' page to learn about selecting alternate
versions of the planes described above. To get a real chance to beat this
game one day with not more than 1 credit, you have to choose your fighter
wisely. According to a FAQ of Alamone, a plane called 'Golden Bat' would
be a very good choice. Allegedly it is the verhicle used by the most players
who successfully finished the game in japanese arcades.

Battle Garegga consists of 8 stages. The operator may decide via DIP switch
(see manual) if the players are allowed to combine their own level order
or not. This mode, called 'stage edit' gives you control over stage 2,
3 and 4. The other ones are at fix positions. 'stage edit' is no more
available in the later software revision (Ver. Sat Feb 3 1996).

Last but not least there are a few cool secrets, like the 4 selectable
guest players from the Mahou games, special game modes and several in-game
challenges. Check the 'secrets' page to learn more about it.